| Year |
Month & Date |
Day |
Name |
|---|
| 1619 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Jean-Baptiste Colbert |
French minister of finance (d. 1683) |
| 1628 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
John Granville |
English royalist statesman (d. 1701) |
| 1632 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
John Locke |
English philosopher (d. 1704) |
| 1725 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Charles Townshend |
English politician (d. 1767) |
| 1728 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony |
Electress of Bavaria (d. 1797) |
| 1756 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde |
Austrian field marshal and statesman (d. 1845) |
| 1756 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Jan ?niadecki |
Polish mathematician (d. 1830) |
| 1777 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Nikita Yakovlevich Bichurin |
founder of Sinology (d. 1853) |
| 1780 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Jean Ingres |
French painter (d. 1867) |
| 1805 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Frederick Maurice |
English theologian (d. 1872) |
| 1809 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Oliver Wendell Holmes‚ Sr. |
American physician and writer (d. 1894) |
| 1810 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Juan Bautista Alberdi |
Argentinian politician‚ writer and Constitution main promoter (d. 1884) |
| 1811 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Henry Bergh |
founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (d. 1888) |
| 1842 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Alfred Shaw |
English cricketer (d. 1907) |
| 1843 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
David B. Hill |
Governor of New York (d. 1910) |
| 1844 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Edward Carpenter |
English poet (d. 1929) |
| 1857 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Sandford Schultz |
English cricketer (d. 1937) |
| 1862 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Andrew Fisher |
5th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1928) |
| 1862 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Maurice Maeterlinck |
Belgian poet Nobel laureate (d. 1949) |
| 1871 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Albert Lebrun |
French politician (d. 1950) |
| 1876 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Charles F. Kettering |
American inventor (d. 1958) |
| 1876 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Kim Gu |
President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea (d. 1949) |
| 1898 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Preston Sturges |
American filmmaker (d. 1959) |
| 1901 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Aur?le Joliat |
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1986) |
| 1904 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Werner Forssmann |
German physician Nobel laureate (d. 1979) |
| 1905 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Arndt Pekurinen |
Finnish pacifist (d. 1941) |
| 1905 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Dhyan Chand |
Indian hockey player (d. 1979) |
| 1910 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Vivien Thomas |
African American surgeon (d. 1985) |
| 1912 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Wolfgang Suschitzky |
Austrian/Polish cinematographer |
| 1912 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Barry Sullivan |
American actor (d. 1994) |
| 1912 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Sohn Kee-chung |
Korean runner (d. 2002) |
| 1913 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Len Butterfield |
New Zealand cricketer (d. 1999) |
| 1915 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Ingrid Bergman |
Swedish actress (d. 1982) |
| 1915 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Nathan Pritikin |
American nutritionist (d. 1985) |
| 1916 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Luther Davis |
American playwright (d. 2008) |
| 1916 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
George Montgomery |
American actor (d. 2000) |
| 1917 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Isabel Sanford |
American actress (d. 2004) |
| 1920 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Charlie Parker |
American musician (d. 1955) |
| 1922 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Mr. Blackwell |
American fashion critic (d. 2008) |
| 1923 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Richard Attenborough |
English film director |
| 1923 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Marmaduke Hussey |
BBC Chairman (d. 2006) |
| 1923 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Hiralal Gaekwad |
Indian cricketer |
| 1924 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Consuelo Velazquez |
Mexican songwriter (d. 2005) |
| 1924 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Dinah Washington |
American singer (d. 1963) |
| 1926 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Helene Ahrweiler |
Greek Byzantinologist |
| 1926 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Betty Lynn |
American actress |
| 1926 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Maria Dolores Pradera |
Spanish melodic singer |
| 1928 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Charles Gray |
English actor (d. 2000) |
| 1929 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Thom Gunn |
British poet (d. 2004) |
| 1930 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Jacques Bouchard |
Canadian advertising executive (d. 2006) |
| 1931 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Stelios Kazantzidis |
Greek singer (d. 2001) |
| 1931 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Lise Payette |
Quebec politician‚ writer and columnist |
| 1933 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Arnold Koller |
Swiss Federal Councilor |
| 1934 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
John Guy |
New Zealand cricketer |
| 1934 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Dimitris Papamichael |
Greek actor and director (d. 2004) |
| 1935 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
William Friedkin |
American film director |
| 1935 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Laszlo Garai |
Hungarian scientist‚ psychologist |
| 1936 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
John McCain |
American politician |
| 1937 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
James Florio |
American politician |
| 1938 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Elliott Gould |
American actor |
| 1938 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Robert Rubin |
United States Secretary of the Treasury |
| 1939 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Joel Schumacher |
American film director |
| 1940 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
James Brady |
American White House Press Secretary and gun control activist |
| 1940 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Gary Gabelich |
American race car driver (d. 1984) |
| 1941 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Robin Leach |
English television host |
| 1942 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
James Glennon |
American cinematographer (d. 2006) |
| 1942 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
John Heuser |
Electron microscopist |
| 1943 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Mohamed Amin |
Kenyan photojournalist (d. 1996) |
| 1945 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Wyomia Tyus |
American athlete |
| 1946 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Bob Beamon |
American long jumper |
| 1946 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Dimitris Christofias |
Cypriot politician and sixth President of the Republic of Cyprus |
| 1947 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Temple Grandin |
American animal welfare and autism expert |
| 1947 |
August 29 |
Friday |
James Hunt |
English raceing driver (d. 1993) |
| 1950 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Doug DeCinces |
American baseball player |
| 1950 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Dave Reichert |
American politician and sheriff |
| 1950 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Frank Henenlotter |
American director |
| 1952 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Karen Hesse |
American children's writer |
| 1952 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Dave Malone |
American rock guitarist |
| 1952 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Deborah Van Valkenburgh |
American actress |
| 1953 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
James Quesada |
Nicaraguan/American anthropologist |
| 1954 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Michael P. Kube-McDowell |
American science fiction novelist |
| 1955 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Frank Hoste |
Belgian cyclist |
| 1955 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Diamanda Galas |
American singer |
| 1956 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
GG Allin |
American rock singer (d. 1993) |
| 1956 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Mark Morris |
American choreographer |
| 1957 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Jerry D. Bailey |
American racing jockey |
| 1958 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Lenny Henry |
British writer‚ comedian and actor |
| 1958 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Michael Jackson |
American entertainer and pop singer (d. 2009) |
| 1959 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Ernesto Rodrigues |
Portuguese composer |
| 1959 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Akkineni Nagarjuna |
Indian Telugu actor |
| 1959 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Timothy Perry Shriver |
member of the Kennedy Family |
| 1959 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Chris Hadfield |
Canadian astronaut |
| 1959 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Rebecca De Mornay |
American actress |
| 1959 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Stephen Wolfram |
British physicist and mathematician |
| 1960 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Todd English |
American chef |
| 1960 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Tony MacAlpine |
American guitarist |
| 1961 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Carsten Fischer |
German field-hockey player |
| 1961 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Rodney McCray |
American basketball player |
| 1962 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Hiroki Kikuta |
Japanese composer |
| 1962 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Carl Banks |
American football player |
| 1962 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Ian James Corlett |
Canadian voice actor |
| 1963 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Elizabeth Fraser |
Scottish singer |
| 1965 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Will Perdue |
American basketball player |
| 1965 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Dina Spybey |
American actress |
| 1966 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Jorn Gro?kopf |
German footballer |
| 1967 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Anton Newcombe |
American musician (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) |
| 1968 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Me'Shell NdegeOcello |
American singer |
| 1969 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Joe Swail |
Northern Irish snooker player |
| 1970 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Chris Daugherty |
Winner of Survivor: Vanuatu |
| 1971 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Henry Blanco |
Venezuelan baseball player |
| 1971 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Carla Gugino |
American actress |
| 1972 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Bae Yong Joon |
South Korean actor |
| 1973 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Adam Sessler |
American TV show host |
| 1973 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Olivier Jacque |
motorcyclist |
| 1974 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Kumi Tanioka |
Japanese composer |
| 1975 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Dante Basco |
Filipino/American actor |
| 1975 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Juan Diego Botto |
Argentine-Spanish actor |
| 1976 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Stephen Carr |
Irish footballer |
| 1976 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Kevin Kaesviharn |
American football player |
| 1976 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Pablo Mastroeni |
American soccer player |
| 1976 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Jon Dahl Tomasson |
Danish footballer |
| 1977 |
August 29 |
Monday |
John Patrick O'Brien |
American footballer |
| 1977 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Aaron Rowand |
American baseball player |
| 1977 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Devean George |
American basketball player |
| 1977 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Roy Oswalt |
American baseball player |
| 1977 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Charlie Pickering |
Australian comedian |
| 1977 |
August 29 |
Monday |
Jo Weil |
German actor |
| 1978 |
August 29 |
Tuesday |
Celestine Babayaro |
Nigerian footballer |
| 1979 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Chieu Luu |
Canadian journalist |
| 1979 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Ryan Shealy |
American baseball player |
| 1979 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Stijn Devolder |
Belgian cyclist |
| 1980 |
August 29 |
Friday |
David Desrosiers |
Canadian musician (Simple Plan) |
| 1980 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Chris Simms |
American football player |
| 1980 |
August 29 |
Friday |
David West |
American basketball player |
| 1980 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Nicholas Tse |
Hong Kong singer and actor |
| 1980 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Mohammad Sheikh |
Kenyan cricketer |
| 1981 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Lanny Barbie |
Canadian pornographic actress |
| 1981 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Genevi?ve Jeanson |
French Canadian cyclist |
| 1981 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Jay Ryan |
Australian actor |
| 1981 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Dennis Oh |
Korean-American actor |
| 1982 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Carlos Delfino |
Argentine basketball player |
| 1982 |
August 29 |
Sunday |
Leon Washington |
American football player |
| 1984 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Alexander Hug |
German rugby player |
| 1985 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Jeffrey Licon |
American actor |
| 1985 |
August 29 |
Thursday |
Marc Rzepczynski |
American baseball player |
| 1986 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Lauren Collins |
Canadian actress |
| 1986 |
August 29 |
Friday |
Lea Michele |
American actress and singer |
| 1987 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Tony Kane |
Irish footballer |
| 1990 |
August 29 |
Wednesday |
Nicole Anderson |
American actress |
| 1992 |
August 29 |
Saturday |
Mallu Magalhaes |
Brazilian singer-songwriter |
